A Case of the Blues

I seem to be in a rut lately, a case of the blues. Maybe some leftover cabin fever. Usually that's remedied with some good old fashioned sunshine, which I got btw last week. I was out mowing and working in the yard for several hours many days during the week but we had a rainy day today and a bit of a chill in the air. My son inspired me to post by sending me the latest picture of him...
Now if that isn't cause for a chuckle I don't know what is. But then I have to apologize because his funny get up are ice packs to ease the pain from having all his wisdom teeth extracted. I should have another post soon as that I still have soccer pictures from last Saturday to post and another soccer game today if it doesn't rain.

What a Busy, Cold, Saturday

Saturday morning stated with the younger grandson's (in town) having a soccer game. I had started to put on my long heavy coat and changed my mind because I was going to be sitting in the dil's car to watch. Our soccer field has no bleachers. I put on my sweater coat instead, it WAS 5o degrees. You can see in the picture below how dark the western sky was. The kids were feeling pretty comfortable at this point.
The grandson is in blue and pretty much in the center of both of these pictures.

Here's a picture of his sister, PK, watching the game. Note the blue sky with white clouds behind her to the south.

The grandson had a good game. It ended in a tie, 1 to 1.

You can see all the pictures that were taken Here

Next on the field was the Princess and her team. She's the one in the pink stockings.

Just the Princess and the ball...

...you GO, Girl! She has her own new pink soccer ball that she's been practicing with.

During her game it started getting really cold. Below you see her trying to warm up while sitting on the bench.

To see all the pictures from her game click HERE

After the Princess' game the three came to my house and at 2pm the grandson had a birthday party to go to downtown. They were going to have the party in the park, but with it turning so cold and windy they changed it to inside the fire station.

At 3pm we took PK to the park for the annual city Easter Egg Hunt. It was windy cold. The Easter bunny was there for photo ops.

Here she got her friend to get in on the picture.

Santa has his sleigh and reindeer, ever wonder how the Easter Bunny gets around?

Let the hunt begin! Here's the dil doing a double point...

It doesn't take long for mom to get in the way of picking up candy foil wrapped chocolate eggs.

They're everywhere...

...both girls have no problem with picking these up, now if only picking up toys were done so eagerly.

A nice little bucket of eggs.

For all the Easter Egg Hunt pictures click HERE

Since their mom had to work and their dad was already at work the girls stayed with me. It was the perfect opportunity to get into the string bracelet kit that my mom sent out for them. First I showed them how to cut the strings...

...then I showed them how to do the weaving.

At 4pm I went and picked up the grandson from his party and at 6pm the dil came to pick them up. The girls had already decided that they were going to stay the night so the grandson was the only one that went home with the dil. At bedtime the girls asked for ice cream so I got out all the syrups and sprinkles and they wanted them ALL!

I thought the colors were pretty so I had to get a picture before they added the colored marshmallows and whipped cream.

This was only a part of my busy day, there were meals and other things too, but this was all that I took pictures of. Hope all of you had busy, wonderful weekends with family.

K-Monster's Soccer Game

I almost forgot to post this. K-Monster's soccer game was Saturday. They had team photos starting at 3pm, starting with individual shots....
...and then the whole team picture.
The game began at 4pm...
...it was quite an exciting game and the competition intense.
K-Monster's team was ahead at the beginning...
...up 2 points with the opposition catching up by the end of the game.

The picture below shows the aftermath of a quick kick that K-Monster made, bouncing off the face of a girl in the opposing team. She came back out of it like nothing hit her! You Go Girl!
With the game tied they had a Shootout to win the game. K-Monster's team lost.
It was a good game, K-Monster!

I Love My New Camera

The KMonster had another soccer game today. It was chilly out and I wish I had worn my coat rather than my sweater-coat that didn't keep the breeze out. Yet the kids were out there on the field in T-shirts looking unfazed by the weather. Here's KMonster getting into his goalie shirt.
Just look how bright those colors are in the picture above. The picture below was taken from mid-field and they are close to the goal. This is cropped from a larger picture and had it wide open, no zoom.
I was also using the sports setting that takes multiple pictures one right after the other.

My zoom is only 5x, much less than on my other camera, but the picture is of such a higher quality that it makes up for it. See how much clearer his name is on his shirt? A telephoto lens and a macro lens are on my wish list.
Here's the KMonster in action, drop kicking the ball.
Fighting for the ball when he was playing the field.
On his toes and aware of where the ball is.
They played a good game but lost by 2 points. Better luck next time, guys.

From Soccer Balls to Easter Eggs

It was cloudy, cold and drizzly when I woke up this morning. Didn't look good for what was on the schedule for the day. Grandson, Kmonster, had a soccer game scheduled for 1pm here. And by here, I mean if my vision were better I could probably watch the game from my front porch. His mother, my daughter, had to work today, so I am his designated cheering section for this game. I walked over to the field at 12:30 with my long, hooded, winter coat on because there is still quite a chill in the air. Just days before it had been in the 70's. At a little after 1pm the teams square up in the middle of the field.
Kmonster plays goalie again for 3/4 of the game. I guess he's the only one that wants to play this position.
Click on the picture below to get a larger view. I don't know if it will be large enough to see, he actually has "K Monster" printed on the back of his team shirt. And all of you thought it was just a cute nickname I'd given him.
Here's the Kmonster in action (below). They lost the game 2 to 1 but played a good game.

I was back home a little after 2pm which gave me time to fix some lunch and take care of a few other things before the Easter Egg Hunt at 4pm. DIL and her three showed up here around 3:30. These three, my son's children, are the only ones in town still young enough to participate. My daughter's two boys are too old, but I drafted the older one (Kmonster's older brother) to run the camcorder during the hunt. Before the hunt everyone gathers at the park and line up behind signs for designated age groups, 1-2 yrs, 3-4 yrs, etc...
The soccer field has been transformed, divided up by metal rebar and orange ribbon. The sections are covered with bright colored Easter eggs. For the two younger groups there are large plastic eggs along with the foil wrapped chocolate eggs that cover the other sections.
Below are the two younger groups lined up and ready to go grab some goodies.
My youngest granddaughter has learned to fly! Check the picture below if you don't believe me, both feet are off the ground.
The littler ones are always chased after by adults with cameras and shouting, "There's one, there's one, you missed one!"

The picture below is looking over at the older children gathering eggs. I almost got my house in the picture but only got as far as my neighbor on the left of the picture.
The littlest granddaughter has a bucket full with those big plastic eggs. She is an aggressive child so I wasn't surprised to see her bucket completely full.
The older granddaughter has quite a few of the little eggs. I'm sure that's plenty of chocolate to last her till Easter when she'll get more.
The grandson didn't do quite so well, but I'm sure his sisters will share with him.

And that was my Saturday. Tomorrow I have a birthday party to go to and I'll post more pictures.

I Don't Do Mornings!

My daughter called last week to ask what I had planned for Saturday. Nothing on my calendar, what's up? Kmonster's first soccer game was scheduled for Saturday and she was scheduled to work, her hubby too. Could I take him? The game starts at 10am, he needs to be there at 9:30 and it's in Kingman, 35 minutes away. OK, since it's Kmonster, I'll get up and around early and drive him...

It was terribly windy and the wind had a chill to it. I took a comforter and set my chair with my back to the wind, comforter in chair and wrapped up as best I could. The wind still cut through the comforter.

Kmonster is goal tender, can be quite a lonely post. His team managed to keep the ball at the opposing goal for most the game.
Kmonster blocked several attempts by the opposition to score.

And he even got to get in on some game play. That's him in the middle in the picture below.
Good kick Kmonster!
Kmonster's team won, 4 - 1.... I'm sorry Kmonster, but I just have to post the short video. I only took one video clip on my digital camera, the ball had made it down to Kmonsters goal and I thought I'd get some action. I did, a video clip of the only goal the other team scored.

Good Game, Kmonster and team! Hope you have a GREAT season!